sammy

I have a slc 5/04 and want to remotely program it from home. What is needed to do this? I have RS logix an Links at both locations< but what other cards to I need?

THIS IS WHAT I READ; And here is a pretty picture to go along with Ron's post. You said in a previous post your transmitter was scaled 0-600 Deg, if that is not the case then change the scaled max to match your transmitters scaling. I also used a floating point destination your program may vary. An integer is ok if no decimal is required. I used F8:0 your program may already have used that register, find an unused register if necessary. Also see pdf below for data format values for your card.If you were wondering where the values Ron posted came from. Attached thumbnail(s) I DID NOT HAVE TO CLICK ON THE ATTACHMENT BECAUSE HE POSTED WHAT I NEEDED. AND WHAT I ASKED IS WHERE DID HE GET THAT INFO FROM SO THAT I WOULDN'T FEEL BELITTLED BY ASKING A SIMPLE QUESTION . IF I WOULD HAVE HAD THE MANUEL THAT CAME WITH THE USED MODULE THAT I BOUGHT I WOULD NOT HAVE BOTHERED YOU. IT WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION, WASNT IT?

Thanks, but how did you come up with those numbers?

What I did do is: input I:4.0 3195 input min 0 input max 32767 scaled min 0 scaled max 650 output n7:0 56 I dont understand why I am getting the 56 The thermocouple transmitter is a 4-20ma 2 wire loop made by omega. (model tx52). Thanks again

Sorry, I cant post it on this pc but my analog card is the 4th slot (I4.0) the transmitter I am using is a loop type 4-20ma. Thanks

I think the 4-20 ma represents the range of the thermocouple transmitter. 4ma would be 0 degrees and 20ma would be 600 degrees as that is the range of the transmitter. If I am wrong please guide me in the right direction. Thanks

I am wondering if it is possible to use a k thermocouple, a thermo couple transmitter and a A/B 1746-NI4 set on the 4-20ma setting to give me a accurate temp reading. The thermocouple cards are out of my price range. Thanks

It is a whole lot quicker and easier to just replace the card instead of trying to fix it. Dont throw the card out though, whith just one bad output I would save it for another spare.

Found an easier way to do it: 6 aaa batterys, and 1 load cell and hook it up to my analog card. Now I can see what it does.

Getting a thermocouple is no problem, there a dime a dozen, but as Mickey said I need a power supply for the analog signal. The p/n you gave me is for a t/c and not a power supply. Thanks any way. Sam

NI4

I just bought a NI4 card to learn how to do it and I thought that I had some thing a round the house here to generate a signal but I cant find it. I do have some thermocouples here also. Is there a way to make an inexpensive one or buy one? I looked on the forums cuz I thought there was some thing posted once. Thanks

The best thing to do is to get the proper cable from A-B and do it right the first time. I'm not saying it cant be done, but why would you want to rig up some sort of cable for it especially when you have a p/v-600. I would ask the place or person where you "acquired" this equipment from to give you the cable being as you spent all that money getting a m/l 1200 and a p/v-600 or spend the $85.00 or less and buy one. Just my opinion.

I thought that the SLC 500s only had processors and the computer was the piece of equipment you programmed the processors in the SLCs with. Am I wrong?

But either way I have to have the license number?